The TV Ghost + A Terrifying Trio | True Scary Ghost Stories | Ep #15

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If you have a true strange story
you'd like to hear narrated on

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the show, submit it now on
madamstrangeways.com or e-mail

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it to
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

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That's MAD.
AM E Hello, Strangelings.

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It's me, Madam Strangeways, back
with two new true strange

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stories for you, both of them
about ghosts, beings from

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another dimension, or perhaps
some secret third thing.

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And as always, solicited or not,
usually not, I share my thoughts

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and observations after each
spooky tale.

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Now it's time for you to dim the
lights, get cozy, and maybe even

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get yourself a little snacky
snack while I read you these

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true strange stories here on
Madam Strange Ways.

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Before we begin, I need your
help, please and thank you.

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As of the recording of this
episode, I am completely out of

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true strange stories for you.
So if you or someone you know

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has a true spooky tale to share,
please consider sharing it with

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me at madamstrangeways@gmail.com
or on madamstrangeways.com.

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Thank you so, so, so, so so
much.

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And now on to the stories.
The TV Ghost by Truly Spooky on

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TikTok.
I'm going to call this one the

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TV ghost.
This one occurred the summer

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that my sister Amy, who was a
few years older, was allowed to

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have an hour added on to her
bedtime and I thought it was

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completely unfair.
I was told to go to bed at my

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regular bedtime and I threw a
complete tantrum and to be

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honest, I didn't want to be
upstairs alone.

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So I was put to bed throwing a
fit and I cried myself to sleep.

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I woke up sometime later, but I
didn't realize how much time had

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passed.
I heard the TV on downstairs

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though.
I was still so mad that even

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though all the lights were off,
I walked downstairs, wanting to

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catch my sister just taking
advantage of her new bedtime.

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I traversed the entire house,
The house that I've been telling

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you about in the dark.
The only light that was on was

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the one fluorescent light over
the kitchen sink that was

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allowed to remain on.
But as I approached the living

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room, I could see the glow of
the TV and I could hear the TV

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on as I got to the doorway of
the living room.

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I got there just in time to see
the TV turn off, but I made out

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the silhouette of a kid sitting
on the living room floor looking

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towards the television.
I knew it was late at night, but

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I was still so mad at my sister
and I yelled at her.

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I said I got you.
You're busted.

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You're going to be in so much
trouble.

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You're going to lose your new
bedtime privileges.

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And she didn't answer me back,
so I just stood there yelling in

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the dark.
I saw you.

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I saw that you had the TV on.
I know it's you, Amy.

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My mom comes down asking me why
I was up in the middle of the

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night screaming, and I'm trying
to explain to her.

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I caught her.
I caught her watching TV.

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My mom flips the lights on.
We're completely alone.

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It's somewhere around 3:00 to
4:00 in the morning.

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And I kept explaining to my mom,
I saw a kid sitting there.

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I saw a kid sitting in front of
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She walked me back upstairs and
put me back in my bed and I saw

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Amy in her own bed.
So who was actually downstairs

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watching TV in the middle of the
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I guess ghosts don't observe
bedtimes either.

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Stay spooky, friends.
That is part of a larger story

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that truly spooky is telling on
her TikTok channel and that's

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spelled truly TRULY spooky with
an extra O in there.

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So SPOO OK, Y truly spooky.
Check her out on TikTok.

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She's got a lot of personal
experiences with scary stuff.

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She tells great stories.
So check her out on TikTok.

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It the story references a house
that she has been talking about

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and this house is haunted and
this house is terrifying and she

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had to live in it as a child.
So please go check out, listen,

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listen to her terrifying
stories.

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But for this story, I thought
this was just such a perfect

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classic old school haunted house
scary story, scary experience.

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I love truly spooky.
I love how you were out to get

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your sister.
Like, no, no, no, you don't get

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to have cool privileges while I
don't have cool privileges and

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they get to stay up even later
than you're supposed to.

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Absolutely not very justice
oriented of you.

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I'm here for it.
Of course, what I'm not here for

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is there being a ghost child
watching TV in your home.

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It's giving Exorcist.
Nope.

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It's giving.
I'm going to leave that in.

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I'm going to leave that error
and to show everybody listening

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that I can make mistakes.
I make a lot of mistakes.

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I make mistakes constantly.
And just because I make a

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mistake doesn't make me a
mistake.

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And I want to make sure that you
listening are also applying that

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same logic to yourself.
Just because you make a mistake

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does not mean that you yourself
are a mistake.

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So let's go back.
It's giving Poltergeist.

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It's giving the movie
Poltergeist.

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You know, that the cover, the
movie poster, it's giving that

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with the, with the kid, the
little girl in front of the

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television, the television's on.
Very, very scary.

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Just the thought.
That's exactly what I was

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picturing as you were telling
the story when the ghost child

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appears and you see that
silhouette for just a split

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second, super scary along with
all the other stories that you

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have been telling.
I don't know what else was it,

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you know, was it just your
wishful thinking as a child

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expecting to see that or was it
related to all of the crazy

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paranormal activity that you
talk about on your TikTok

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account?
Who knows, we may never know.

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I think you do.
I think you probably have a much

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better idea.
So again, truly spooky with

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three O's.
Truly spooky.

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Thank you so much for giving me
permission to read one of your

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many, many tales about your
personal experiences on the

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show.
And if anyone else has personal

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experiences from haunted houses
that they grew up in or any kind

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of experience at all, I want to
hear about it. e-mail me at

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madamstrangeways@gmail.com or go
to madamstrangeways.com.

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And remember, that's MAD AM E.
Visitors in bedroom by

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Anonymous.
So my mother is a very level

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headed rational person and has
never had a belief in ghosts or

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the paranormal.
She is not the kind of person to

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make a story like this up, so it
has always deeply disturbed me

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because I wholeheartedly believe
it happened exactly as she says.

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So when she was 17, still living
in her parents old house in

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Virginia, she was reading a book
in her room on a school night.

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She said she remembers finishing
the chapter of the book she was

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reading, thinking that was a
good chapter, then closing the

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book and putting it on her night
stand.

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The lamp by her bed was still
on, and just as she was about to

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reach over to turn it off to get
ready to go to sleep, there was

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a sheet of darkness that she
describes as being thrown over

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her, almost like someone threw a
blanket, but nothing was there

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physically.
She jolted up and stood next to

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her bed, and slowly the darkness
faded and she could see her room

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again.
But as she could slowly see

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more, she realized there were
three figures in the room with

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her.
One was next to the door, the

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other in the far left corner of
the room, and the third sitting

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in a chair that was on the other
side of the bed in the corner.

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They didn't speak, but my mom
knew that they were there to

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take her away with them.
It was almost telepathic the way

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she describes it and that she
knew why they were there and

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what their intentions were.
She was frozen for a minute, but

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then decided to try to run out
of her room, which she did, out

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the door, down the stairs, and
into the living room, which was

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a straight shot from the bottom
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She was screaming at this point
for her dad, and as she turned

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around she saw the three figures
floating down the steps toward

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her.
Just before the one in the front

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made it to the bottom, she heard
her dad coming, and all of the

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figures vanished like smoke.
Her dad was understandably

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disturbed, and my mom never
slept in that room again until

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she moved out of the house.
Any time I've asked her to

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describe what those figures
looked like to get more detail

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many times over the years, she
tells me the same thing, that

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they had a human form but no
details in the face or skin.

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They were translucent and foggy.
Anonymous that is such a scary

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story.
It's just really scary.

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It's it's it's short.
It is not sweet.

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It is scared.
It's short and scary.

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The way that she said there's
just God, I'd I'm jumping

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around, but the way that she
said, you know, she just knew

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why they were there and that
they were there to take her

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away, which first of all, a way
to where?

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A way to where, where, where
were they taking her?

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I mean, who are they?
Where we're we're covering the

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questions we got who, what,
when, where, why?

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It's honestly scarier not
knowing.

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It's scarier not knowing where
or who or why or how.

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But Speaking of when, that makes
me think, how long had they been

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there?
Had these figures been hanging

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out?
She's just relaxing in her bed,

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existing, and they're just
bidding their time.

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And then why did she see them?
Like, you know, the veil being

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lifted, Like you hear that, you
know, you hear that phrase a lot

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when you're talking about the
supernatural, but usually it's

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just a metaphor.
Whereas in this case, it was as

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if there was a dark veil over
her eyes that was lifted that

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she didn't even realize was
there before.

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Of course, it sounds like the
veil was then back in place

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again as soon as she got in
contact with her dad, who was

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ready to protect her.
I'm sure that her dad, your

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grandpa, was ready to murder
someone if someone was in the

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house thinking what is wrong
with my daughter?

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I'm going to protect her.
And then he couldn't even see

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what what she was screaming
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I mean, hopefully he never saw
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What I want to have happened, as
always, what I hope happened is

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that here's the thing, whenever
you're in bed, there's a chance

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you have fallen asleep and not
realized that you were asleep.

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You feel like you're awake.
I don't know if y'all have these

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dreams.
I have dreams that are very

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mundane.
I have dreams where I'm laying

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in my normal bed in my normal
bedroom.

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There's nothing weird and it
feels very real.

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I also have dreams that I go to
the grocery store and buy bread

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and then I don't buy bread in
real life because I knew I

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already bought the bread.
Why would I buy bread twice?

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Oh, I didn't buy bread and now
I'm out of bread.

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So I have a lot of mundane
dreams.

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So anytime you're in bed or in
any sort of situation where you

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can fall asleep, it is possible
that what you're experiencing

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and when you feel like you're
awake, it's possible that you

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were asleep.
So what I hope is that she fell

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asleep unknowingly.
Unknowingly she fell asleep.

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She had a dream, a nightmare, or
even a hypnagogic hallucination,

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which is the hallucinations that
you have between being awake and

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being asleep.
If it's between being asleep and

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being awake, that's a
hypnopompic hallucination.

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Now I'm saying the word
hallucination a lot.

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And if you're not familiar with
hypnopompic or hypnagogic

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hallucinations, I'm I'm I'm so
ready.

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I'm so ready to tell you.
I love talking about this

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because what I see a lot when
I'm reading stories that are

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posted on various subreddits,
paranormal subreddits to be

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clear, someone will share their
story and they'll preface it by

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saying, you know, hey, I'm not
on drugs, I don't drink, and I'm

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a functioning member of society.
I don't have schizophrenia and I

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don't have a mental illness.
But I'm here to say that

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hallucinating is actually way
more common than anyone

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realizes.
And it's happening a lot.

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Like, for instance, have you
ever experienced feeling your

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phone vibrate in your pocket and
actually it's nowhere near you?

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That is a hallucination.
That is a tactile hallucination.

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Your brain is feeling something
that wasn't there.

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So if that's ever happened to
you, you've hallucinated.

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Have you ever been falling
asleep at night?

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And heard a voice call your name
or any other type of sound like

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it, like a doorbell ringing that
wasn't there, or a phone ringing

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that wasn't there, or any other
noise that probably was a

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hallucination.
That would have been a

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hypnogotic hallucination because
that's happening as you're

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falling asleep.
It's also related to exploding

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head syndrome, which I
personally have experienced.

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All of those things.
Not fun, but they are

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hallucinations and OK, maybe you
haven't heard someone call your

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name in your ear.
However, I bet that your body

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has jerked when you were falling
asleep and it's woken you up

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because in your quasi dream
state you were picturing

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yourself falling.
That is a hallucination.

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That's called a hypnic jerk,
which is the perfect term for it

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because what a jerk move to wake
me up as I'm falling asleep.

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So that's a hallucination.
So hopefully I have informed you

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that actually lots of people
hallucinate all the time.

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Something else that you can
hallucinate in your hypnagogic

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or hypnopompic state is figures
or a sense of impending doom or

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just feeling like you're being
threatened or like there's some

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ominous figure and you're in
danger.

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Those are all also associated
with hypnopompic or hypnagogic

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states.
It it lacks the narrative or

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like story feeling that a dream
has.

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Even if dreams are kind of wacky
and don't really make sense when

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you try to explain them, they
still have things happen.

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Whereas hypnagogic or
hypnopompic hallucinations, you

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don't really have that, but they
do feel very real.

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And in fact, being in a
hypnopompic or a hypnagogic

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state makes you a little less
able to decipher reality from

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fiction.
So you do mistake things as

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being real when you're in that
state.

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So all to say, what I want to
have happened is that your mom

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accidentally fell asleep
unknowingly, had a hypnagogic or

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a hypnopompic hallucination,
mistook it for reality, and then

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got terrified because of course
you would, because there's

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figures in your room and you're
convinced that they're going to

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take you away to some, I don't
know, some hellish place like

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hell or the DMV.
Hey.

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Oh, in a perfect world, that's
what happened to your mom.

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Hopefully she never experienced
anything like that ever again.

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However.
If she did, you know, I want to

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hear about it and I want to hear
more stories.

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But if you are interested in
learning more about

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hallucinations and how normal
they are and also how wild they

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can get, I highly recommend you
check out the book

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Hallucinations by Doctor Oliver
Sacks.

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Honestly, check out every single
thing Doctor Oliver Sacks has

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ever written.
Check him out.

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He's amazing, so smart.
Rest in peace, doc.

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Thank you so much for joining me
for such a lovely spooky time.

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Yes, on air.

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Please be quiet.